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GOLDSTEIN, SAM
1914-1918
This section includes a Jewish pocket prayer book owned by Sgt Sam Goldstein of the 6th Bn. Yorkshire Regt during the First World War. The book has two handwritten inscriptions. The first details serg...
Photos and discharge documents
1914-1918
This section is comprised of material relating to the service of Privates Phillips, Mendelson and Zabit, who fought during the First World War. It houses photographs of the soldiers and the transfer/d...
MENDOZA, J
1914-1918
This section includes the identity discs (aka. dog tags) of J1029 Pte J. Mendoza, 38th Royal Fusiliers. The battalion was one of the first Jewish-only units in the British army, specifically establish...
Letters from Sir Arthur Mayo Robson, sent whilst serving in the Army Medical Service during the First World War
Mayo-Robson, Sir Arthur William (1853-1933)
27 Jun 1915-13 Jul 1915
Typescript copies of letters from Arthur Mayo Robson, written during his time serving in the Army Medical Service in the First World War. Mainly consists of letters written whilst on board various hos...
ROSENTHALL, M G C
1914-1918
This section includes printed photographs of Simeon Rosenthall who was a driver with the Machine Guns Corps during the First World War. There is also a news story from the Daily Mail detailing Rosenth...
Photographs of Berkeley G. A. Moynihan and Leonard Braithwaite and their surgical unit, in France during the First World War
1914
Contains 18 black and white photographs of Berkeley Moynihan and Leonard Braithwaite during their service in the Army Medical Service during the First World War. They were stationed in France in 1914;...
MARKS, LAWRENCE
1914-1918
This section includes a transcript of an interview with Lawrence Marks by his grandson, D. Jacobs, around 1971. Marks served as a private in the 2nd Bn. Welsh Regt. which had been comprised largely of...
BARKER, Mrs AM
1970-1999
This section contains brief notes on in interview (Tape No. 980) with A. Barker, a woman born to a Jewish family in Leeds. It details instances of antisemitism in both Leeds and Newcastle, specificall...
LEFTWICH, J
1914-1918
Ths collection contains a transcript of an interview with Joseph Leftwich in which he recalls life as a young Jew in the East End of London. He was born in Holland to an Orthodox Jewish family and mov...
BICKLER, J
1914-1919
This file contains a transcript of an interview (Tape No. 944) with J. Bickler, a Private in the British Army. It details life and service serving in the Royal Fusiliers Regiment (Jewish Battalion), o...
GORB, D
1914-1919
This section contains the transcript of an interview (Tape No. 919) with D. Gorb who served as Company Quartermaster Sergeant for the 40th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Regiment (Jewish Battalion). It det...
PARSONS, Mrs OLIVE N
1914-1918
This section contains a transcript (Tape No. 1200) of an interview with Olive Parsons regarding her life as a young Socialist in London. Parsons was born into a Jewish family in Britain in 1892. She l...